Municipality
The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the Haryana government to take action against builders for illegal use of groundwater. The court also ordered to seal all borewells at construction sites in Gurgaon over the next two weeks. The court order will have an adverse effect on nearly 450 ongoing commercial and residential projects. [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai municipal corporation (BMC) on Tuesday held a programme to spread awareness as part of its anti-plastic initiative in parts of Kandivali, Borivali and Dahisar. The initiative was taken in association with city NGO Helping Hands Charitable Trust. During the programme, deputy municipal commissioners Rajendra Bhosle and Bharat Marathe appealed to the attendees to [...] Continue Reading »
Ill-quipped system of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation came out in the open again as when the northern grid failed, city could get only half the water of total supply from the Kajauli during disruption period. The reason being Kajauli water works has low power generator, which can only take the load of two lines out of [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage issues are creating a major problem for the city of Mumbai. Mayor Sunil Prabhu put the blame on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at a civic general body meeting on Monday for the problems faced by citizens due to garbage dumping. The mayor expressed his views that contingency plan must be made for garbage [...] Continue Reading »
Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), Nagpur, is forced to scrap many schemes designed to offer for slum-dwellers. The reason being lack of demand as most of the target population has not shown any interest so far in most of the projects. The major problem seems to be the size of flats being built under SRA, which [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi High Court has allowed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) to ‘implement’ their decision to remove the illegal construction at the site in Subhash Park. ASI has asked the civic agency to immediately remove unauthorized construction from public land in a letter, failing which the heritage body [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi cabinet has approved a proposal to make rainwater harvesting system mandatory for all new buildings in the city. The government has asked the Delhi Jal Board to come up with the guidelines on the issue. Earlier, the government had proposed that proper water connection should be issued to the buildings which are equipped with [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body’s garbage collection centers in Chennai seem to be turning into mini dump yards of their own. As the city precariously stands on the brink of an outbreak of diarrhea, these garbage collection points have become breeding ground for mosquitos and houseflies. The Chennai Corporation is forced to dismantle the bright blue aluminium [...] Continue Reading »
Union Minister of state for urban development Saugata Roy has declared that under Jawharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), 45 solid waste management projects have been approved. Laying stress at effective solid waste management, he stated that an estimated cost of Rs 2086 crore and 70 projects at a cost of Rs 409 crore [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has been dysfunctional for some months now as appointment of the head still waits. The complaints being carried to the BDA headquarters on T Chowdaiah Road remain unanswered and even unheard as the newly appointed commissioner had been transferred as the principal secretary to the chief minister, leaving the civic agency [...] Continue Reading »
